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This article examines reasons the prosecutor should make the closing arguments in the United States. It also examines the importance of closing arguments; the advantages of going first and the scientific bases of primacy; and the advantages of rebuttal.

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John B. Mitchell,
Why Should the Prosecutor Get the Last Word?, 27 AM. J. CRIM. L. 139
(2000).
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